Glossary of RAF code names
Code words used by the Royal Air Force during World War II:
* Angels – height in thousands of feet.
* Bandit – identified enemy aircraft.
* Bogey – unidentified (possibly unfriendly) aircraft.
* Buster – radio-telephony code phrase for 'maximum throttle' or full power climb.
* Channel Stop – Air operations intended to stop enemy shipping passing through the Strait of Dover.
* Circus – daytime bomber attacks with fighter escorts against short range targets, to occupy enemy fighters and keep them in the area concerned.
* Diver – radio-telephony code word for a sighted V-1 flying bomb.
* Flower – Counter-air patrols in the area of enemy airfields to preventing aircraft from taking off and attacking those aircraft that succeeded.
* Gardening – mine-laying operations.
* Instep – missi
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Glossary of RAF code names
Code words used by the Royal Air Force during World War II:
* Angels – height in thousands of feet.
* Bandit – identified enemy aircraft.
* Bogey – unidentified (possibly unfriendly) aircraft.
* Buster – radio-telephony code phrase for 'maximum throttle' or full power climb.
* Channel Stop – Air operations intended to stop enemy shipping passing through the Strait of Dover.
* Circus – daytime bomber attacks with fighter escorts against short range targets, to occupy enemy fighters and keep them in the area concerned.
* Diver – radio-telephony code word for a sighted V-1 flying bomb.
* Flower – Counter-air patrols in the area of enemy airfields to preventing aircraft from taking off and attacking those aircraft that succeeded.
* Gardening – mine-laying operations.
* Instep – missi
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* Instep – missi
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